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Kissel, the Glossary

Kissel or kisel is a simple dish with the consistency of a thick gel. Kissel can be made of grains (oatmeal, rye, wheat), peas, sweet fruit and berry or from milk. It belongs to the group of cold-solidified desserts, although it can be served warm. If the kissel is made less gel-like, it can be drunk.^[1]

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Edible gels
Estonian desserts
Fruit desserts
Fruit drinks
Grain dishes
Lithuanian desserts
Lithuanian drinks
Milk dishes
Polish desserts
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Russian desserts
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Akkadian Empire

The Akkadian Empire was the first known ancient empire of Mesopotamia, succeeding the long-lived civilization of Sumer.

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Almond tofu

Almond tofu is a soft, jellied dessert made of apricot kernel milk, agar, and sugar popular throughout East Asia.

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Arrowroot

Arrowroot is a starch obtained from the rhizomes (rootstock) of several tropical plants, traditionally Maranta arundinacea, but also Florida arrowroot from Zamia integrifolia, and tapioca from cassava (Manihot esculenta), which is often labeled arrowroot.

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Beetroot

The beetroot is the taproot portion of a beet plant, usually known in North America as beets while the vegetable is referred to as beetroot in British English, and also known as the table beet, garden beet, red beet, dinner beet or golden beet.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Berry

A berry is a small, pulpy, and often edible fruit.

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Bilberry

Bilberries or blueberries are Eurasian low-growing shrubs in the genus Vaccinium in the flowering plant family Ericaceae that bear edible, dark blue berries.

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Bilhorod Kyivskyi

Bilhorod Kyivskyi (Білгород-Київський) or Belgorod Kiyevsky (Белгород Киевский) was a legendary city-castle in Kievan Rus',Віталій Непомящих.

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Blåbärssoppa or blueberry soup (mustikkakeitto, bláberjasúpa) is a Nordic soup made from bilberries, which can be served cold or hot.

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Budino

Budino is a sweet Italian dessert, usually rich and creamy like a custard or pudding.

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Butter

Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of churned cream.

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Central Europe

Central Europe is a geographical region of Europe between Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Europe.

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Cherry

A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).

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Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus.

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Cockaigne

Cockaigne or Cockayne is a land of plenty in medieval myth, an imaginary place of luxury and ease, comfort and pleasure, opposite to the harshness of medieval peasant life.

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Cocoa solids

Dry cocoa solids are the components of cocoa beans remaining after cocoa butter, the fatty component of the bean, is extracted from chocolate liquor, roasted cocoa beans that have been ground into a liquid state.

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Compote

Compote or compôte (French for stewed fruit) is a dessert originating from medieval Europe, made of whole or pieces of fruit in sugar syrup. Kissel and Compote are fruit desserts.

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Corn starch

Cornflour, cornstarch, maize starch, or corn starch (American English) is the starch derived from corn (maize) grain.

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Cranberry

Cranberries are a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs or trailing vines in the subgenus Oxycoccus of the genus Vaccinium.

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Dessert

Dessert is a course that concludes a meal.

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Dried fruit

Dried fruit is fruit from which the majority of the original water content has been removed either naturally, through sun drying, or through the use of specialized dryers or dehydrators.

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Drink

A drink or beverage is a liquid intended for human consumption.

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Drink mix

A drink mix is a processed-food product, designed to mix usually with water to produce a beverage resembling juice, soda, or other sweet products in flavor.

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Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.

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Estonia

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Flummery

Flummery is a starch-based, sweet, soft dessert pudding which originated in Great Britain during the early modern period.

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French cuisine

French cuisine is the cooking traditions and practices from France.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).

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Fruit preserves

Fruit preserves are preparations of fruits whose main preserving agent is sugar and sometimes acid, often stored in glass jars and used as a condiment or spread.

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Fruit syrup

Fruit syrups or fruit molasses are concentrated fruit juices used as sweeteners.

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Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances.

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Gelatin

Gelatin or gelatine is a translucent, colorless, flavorless food ingredient, commonly derived from collagen taken from animal body parts. Kissel and gelatin are edible gels.

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Gelatin dessert

Gelatin desserts are desserts made with a sweetened and flavoured processed collagen product (gelatin), which makes the dessert "set" from a liquid to a soft elastic solid gel.

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Gooseberry

Gooseberry (or (American and northern British) or (southern British)) is a common name for many species of Ribes (which also includes currants), as well as a large number of plants of similar appearance, and also several unrelated plants (see List of gooseberries).

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Hemp oil

Hemp oil (hemp seed oil) is oil obtained by pressing hemp seeds.

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History of Anatolia

The history of Anatolia (often referred to in historical sources as Asia Minor) can be roughly subdivided into: Prehistory of Anatolia (up to the end of the 3rd millennium BCE), Ancient Anatolia (including Hattian, Hittite and post-Hittite periods), Classical Anatolia (including Achaemenid, Hellenistic and Roman periods), Byzantine Anatolia (later overlapping, since the 11th century, with the gradual Seljuk and Ottoman conquest), Ottoman Anatolia (14th–20th centuries) and the Modern Anatolia, since the creation of the Republic of Turkey.

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History of Mesopotamia

The history of Mesopotamia ranges from the earliest human occupation in the Paleolithic period up to Late antiquity.

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Idiom

An idiom is a phrase or expression that usually presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.

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Isinglass

Isinglass is a form of collagen obtained from the dried swim bladders of fish.

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Karpatka

Karpatka is a traditional Polish cream pie filled with vanilla milk pudding or custard. Kissel and Karpatka are custard desserts and Polish desserts.

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Kūčios

Kūčios or Kūtės (Samogitian Dialect) is the traditional Christmas Eve dinner in Lithuania, held on December 24.

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Kievan Rus'

Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,.

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Kompot

Kompot or compot, as prepared in Central and Eastern Europe and West Asia, refers to boiled fruits (typically fresh or dried) served either as a drink or a dessert depending on the region. Kissel and Kompot are fruit desserts, Polish drinks, Russian drinks and Soviet cuisine.

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Legume

Legumes are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants.

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Lentil

The lentil (Vicia lens or Lens culinaris) is an edible legume.

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Linseed oil

Linseed oil, also known as flaxseed oil or flax oil (in its edible form), is a colourless to yellowish oil obtained from the dried, ripened seeds of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum).

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List of desserts

A dessert is typically the sweet course that, after the entrée and main course, concludes a meal in the culture of many countries, particularly Western culture.

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List of fruit dishes

This is a list of notable fruit dishes.

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List of sauces

The following is a list of notable culinary and prepared sauces used in cooking and food service.

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Livonian language

The Livonian language (līvõ kēļ or rāndakēļ) is a Finnic language whose native land is the Livonian Coast of the Gulf of Riga, located in the north of the Kurzeme peninsula in Latvia but also used to be spoken in the Salaca River valley.

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Mămăligă

Mămăligă is a polenta made out of yellow maize flour, traditional in Romania, Moldova, Hungary, south-west regions of Ukraine and among Poles in Ukraine, the Black Sea regions of Georgia and Turkey, and Thessaly and Phthiotis, as well as in Bulgaria (kacamak) and in Greece.

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Mead

Mead, also called hydromel (particularly when low in alcohol content), is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey mixed with water, and sometimes with added ingredients such as fruits, spices, grains, or hops. Kissel and Mead are Finnish cuisine.

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Milk

Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

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Mors (drink)

Mors (морс) is a Russian non-carbonated fruit drink prepared from berries, generally lingonberries and cranberries (alternatively bilberries, strawberries, raspberries or sea-buckthorn may be used), popular in Russia, Ukraine and other Slavic countries. Kissel and Mors (drink) are fruit drinks and Russian drinks.

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Napoleonka

Napoleonka (krémeš), colloquially kremówka, is a Polish type of cream pie. Kissel and Napoleonka are custard desserts and Polish desserts.

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Oat

The oat (Avena sativa), sometimes called the common oat, is a species of cereal grain grown for its seed, which is known by the same name (usually in the plural).

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Oat milk

Oat milk is a plant milk derived from whole oat (Avena spp.) grains by extracting the plant material with water.

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Oatmeal

Oatmeal is a preparation of oats that have been de-husked, steamed, and flattened, or a coarse flour of hulled oat grains (groats) that have either been milled (ground), rolled, or steel-cut. Kissel and Oatmeal are Finnish cuisine.

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Onion

An onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

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Pea

Pea (pisum in Latin) is a pulse, vegetable or fodder crop, but the word often refers to the seed or sometimes the pod of this flowering plant species.

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Pechenegs

The Pechenegs or PatzinaksPeçeneq(lər), Peçenek(ler), Middle Turkic: بَجَنَكْ, Pecenegi, Печенег(и), Печеніг(и), Besenyő(k), Πατζινάκοι, Πετσενέγοι, Πατζινακίται, პაჭანიკი, pechenegi, печенези,; Печенези, Pacinacae, Bisseni were a semi-nomadic Turkic people from Central Asia who spoke the Pecheneg language.

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Pelamushi

Pelamushi (ფელამუში) or tatara (თათარა) is a Georgian dessert porridge commonly made in autumn, composed of a thick, hard chilled jelly made from grape juice and flour.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Polenta

Polenta is an Italian dish of boiled cornmeal that was historically made from other grains.

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Polish cuisine

Polish cuisine (kuchnia polska) is a style of food preparation originating in and widely popular in Poland.

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Porridge

Porridge is a food made by heating or boiling ground, crushed or chopped starchy plants, typically grain, in milk or water.

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Potato starch

Potato starch is starch extracted from potatoes.

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Primary Chronicle

The Russian Primary Chronicle, commonly shortened to Primary Chronicle (translit, commonly transcribed Povest' vremennykh let (PVL)), is a chronicle of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110.

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Pumpkin

A pumpkin is a cultivated winter squash in the genus Cucurbita.

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Quark (dairy product)

Quark or quarg is a type of fresh dairy product made from milk.

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Quasi-solid

Quasi-solid, Falsely-solid, or semisolid is the physical term for something whose state lies between a solid and a liquid.

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Raspberry

The raspberry is the edible fruit of several plant species in the genus Rubus of the rose family, most of which are in the subgenus Idaeobatus.

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Rødgrød

Rødgrød, rote Grütze, or rode Grütt, meaning "red groats", is a sweet fruit dish from Denmark and Northern Germany.

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Red wine

Red wine is a type of wine made from dark-colored grape varieties.

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Redcurrant

The redcurrant or red currant (Ribes rubrum) is a member of the genus Ribes in the gooseberry family.

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Rhubarb

Rhubarb is the fleshy, edible stalks (petioles) of species and hybrids (culinary rhubarb) of Rheum in the family Polygonaceae, which are cooked and used for food.

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Rice pudding

Rice pudding is a dish made from rice mixed with water or milk and commonly other ingredients such as sweeteners, spices, flavourings and sometimes eggs.

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Rossiyskaya Gazeta

(lit) is a Russian newspaper published by the Government of Russia.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russia Beyond

Russia Beyond (formerly Russia Beyond The Headlines) is a Russian multilingual project operated by RT (formerly Russia Today) parent ANO TV-Novosti, founded by the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.

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Russian fairy tale

A Russian fairy tale or folktale (ска́зка; skazka; "story"; plural translit) is a fairy tale from Russia.

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Ruthenians

Ruthenian and Ruthene are exonyms of Latin origin, formerly used in Eastern and Central Europe as common ethnonyms for East Slavs, particularly during the late medieval and early modern periods.

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Rye

Rye (Secale cereale) is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop.

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Semolina pudding

Semolina pudding or semolina porridge is a porridge-type pudding made from semolina, which is cooked with milk, or a mixture of milk and water, or just water.

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Sour cereal soup

A sour cereal soup is a Slavic traditional soup made with various types of cereals such as rye, wheat and oats, which are fermented to create a sourdough-like soup base and stirred into a pot of stock which may or may not contain meat such as boiled sausage and bacon, along with other ingredients such as hard-boiled eggs, potatoes and dried mushrooms.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissel

Also known as Kiisseli, Kiselis, Ķīselis.

, Livonian language, Mămăligă, Mead, Milk, Mors (drink), Napoleonka, Oat, Oat milk, Oatmeal, Onion, Pea, Pechenegs, Pelamushi, Poland, Polenta, Polish cuisine, Porridge, Potato starch, Primary Chronicle, Pumpkin, Quark (dairy product), Quasi-solid, Raspberry, Rødgrød, Red wine, Redcurrant, Rhubarb, Rice pudding, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Russia, Russia Beyond, Russian fairy tale, Ruthenians, Rye, Semolina pudding, Sour cereal soup, Sourdough, Strawberry, Sumer, Syrniki, Tong sui, Turkish delight, Ukraine, Vanilla, Vanillin, Well, Wheat, Yolk.

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See also

Edible gels

Estonian desserts

Fruit desserts

Fruit drinks

Grain dishes

Lithuanian desserts

Lithuanian drinks

Milk dishes

Polish desserts

Polish drinks

Russian desserts

Russian drinks

References